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V.
Newspaper Clipping ( about ItiSO) sent by Mary H. Linn from Belief on tey Centre County, July 27^ 1944.
"Journeys Aside. Bellefonte's Part in Underground Railway Recalled in Drive to Help Church."
So Much Interest attaches to the "Underground Rail¬ way," that secret method by which runaway slaves were spirited from the south, through the nofcthem states into Canada, in the days before the Civil War, when the
"Ptigitive Slave Law" made this a precarious activity, that one wishes those who had a part in it had left records from which we might learn some of the inter¬ esting incidents connected with it.
Since the activity was so secret, little is known of it. Those who had a part in it probably did not realize how much Interest future generations would take in this part of history, which had its local angle in so many comraxmities, including Williamsport.
some hints of what it meant in and about Bellefonte were contained in an address which Miss Anna Hoy of that commimity gave in the Methodist and Presbyterian church¬ es there Sunday in the interest of a campaign to raise funds to help maintain the church which serves the Ne¬ gro population there.
She said in part:
"The life of the colored people has been like ripe

V.
Newspaper Clipping ( about ItiSO) sent by Mary H. Linn from Belief on tey Centre County, July 27^ 1944.
"Journeys Aside. Bellefonte's Part in Underground Railway Recalled in Drive to Help Church."
So Much Interest attaches to the "Underground Rail¬ way," that secret method by which runaway slaves were spirited from the south, through the nofcthem states into Canada, in the days before the Civil War, when the
"Ptigitive Slave Law" made this a precarious activity, that one wishes those who had a part in it had left records from which we might learn some of the inter¬ esting incidents connected with it.
Since the activity was so secret, little is known of it. Those who had a part in it probably did not realize how much Interest future generations would take in this part of history, which had its local angle in so many comraxmities, including Williamsport.
some hints of what it meant in and about Bellefonte were contained in an address which Miss Anna Hoy of that commimity gave in the Methodist and Presbyterian church¬ es there Sunday in the interest of a campaign to raise funds to help maintain the church which serves the Ne¬ gro population there.
She said in part:
"The life of the colored people has been like ripe